Matthew 2:15
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
KJV
καὶ ἦν ἐκεῖ ἕως τῆς τελευτῆς Ἡρώδου· ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ κυρίου διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐκάλεσα τὸν υἱόν μου.
Greek NT
et erat ibi usque ad obitum Herodis : ut adimpleretur quod dictum est a Domino per prophetam dicentem : Ex Ægypto vocavi filium meum.
Vulgate
and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt did I call my son.
ASV
That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Douay-Rheims
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Places
Egypt
In the original Greek
20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Αἴγυπτος
aiguptos
noun · 25×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πληρόω
pleroo
verb · 86×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
τελευτή
teleute
noun · 1×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκεῖ
ekei
adverb · 94×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
ἕως
eos
adverb · 145×
Ἡρώδης
erodes
noun · 43×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 2 earlier texts.
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Hos 11:1 · exact_quote"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."Hosea's "out of Egypt" applied to the holy family's return
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Exod 4:22 · echo"And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:"Exodus: Israel is my firstborn son — Jesus as the true Israel
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ὑπὸ | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑπὸ | RP: + τοῦ
- ὑπὸ — SBLGNT
- ὑπὸ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§530The flight into Egypt and the massacre of the innocents217 make manifest the opposition of darkness to the light: "He came to his own home, and his own people received him not."218 Christ's whole life was lived under the sign of persecution. His own share it with him.219 Jesus' departure from Egypt recalls the exodus and presents him as the definitive liberator of God's people.…
One and the same God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is He whom the prophets foretold, and who was declared by the Gospel. Proof of this, at the outset, from St. Matthew's Gospel. 1. This, therefore, having been clearly demonstrated here (and it shall yet be so still more clearly), that neither the prophets, nor the apostles, nor the Lord Christ in His own person, did acknowl…
1. Do we then run and labor in vain? Are we sowing upon the rocks? Does the seed fall upon the rocks? Does the seed fall without our knowing it by the wayside, and among thorns? I am greatly troubled and fear, lest our husbandry be unprofitable; not as though I shall be a loser as well as you, touching the reward of this labor. For it is not with those who teach as it is with h…
Cross-references
- Acts 12:1 — Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
- Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
- Hos 11:1 — When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Hos 11:1 — When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
- Luke 24:44 — And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the
- Matt 1:22 — Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
- Matt 1:22 — Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
- Matt 2:17 — Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
- Matt 2:19 — But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
- Matt 2:23 — And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
- Matt 4:14 — That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
- Matt 4:14 — That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
- Matt 8:17 — That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
- Matt 12:16 — And charged them that they should not make him known:
- Matt 21:4 — All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
- Matt 26:54 — But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
- Num 24:8 — God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.